Careful though, you can always crew up omre stuff if you adjust permissions on the root and then apply it to all folder/subfolders.

Make sure you backup that machine before doing this!

brentil

20 Aug 2008 10:45 PM

I spent a bunch of time hunting around trying to find a solution to this issue. We remove the Users group from the root of our servers but don't cascade the change down on the system drive. We've done this with NT4, Win2000 Server, Win2003 Server, and thought we'd be able to do it with Win2008 Server but apparently not.

Adding it back in worked like a charm, however I don't necessarily like having it there. If I knew exactly where else it belonged I'd prefer to just add it to the needed directories.

Chris Walsh

22 Aug 2008 3:44 PM

Any tech note / kb from Microsoft on this issue?

I am going to try this now and if it works, remove the BUILTIN\Users (R) from root again.

Hopefully, it is a one off for updates.

Jon Nolen

27 Sep 2008 8:37 PM

I spent a lot of time trying to research this, and finally something works! Thanks!!!

Mike

12 Nov 2008 6:32 PM

I've been looking everywhere for a resolution to this problem. Finally a solution that works.

Thanks for the opening line about root security - rather stupitly I removed local user read rights